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Op-Ed
PM’s visit and Nepal’s Development
The recent Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to China has brought home some good assurances from the Chinese government. Among others, youth exchange programs between Nepal and China, and MoU for West Seti are significant.
With rise of activities against China in Nepali soil, the number of Nepali visiting China for various purposes has declined in [...]
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Fresh News
Nepalnews
880 MW Tamakoshi-3 to complete within seven years
Posted on 31 August 2010
Tamakoshi-3 hydropower project, which is being developed with the assistance of Norway, will generate 880 megawatt (MW) of electricity within seven years, reports Kantipur daily. SN Power, which has already undertaken some phases of the project, said that it would produce power by accomplishing the project by the beginning of 2017. If the two hydro projects of [...] Continue
Hydropower, Kantipur News
17 hydro firms vie for licensePOST REPORT
Posted on 31 August 2010
The first month of the current fiscal year saw 17 hydropower developers applying to the Department of Electricity Development (DoED) for license. DoED statistics show three developers—all Nepali—applied for hydro projects above 100 MW in the first month of this fiscal year. The DoED is the sole authority to issue licenses to the hydropower developers. Of [...] Continue
Nepalnews
Entrepreneurs bemoan power cuts
Posted on 31 August 2010
Entrepreneurs from the eastern region have complained that despite their willingness to install thermal plant and power house, the region has been hit by power cuts more severely than other places in the country. They also accused the government of being totally indifferent towards addressing the paralysing problem of load-shedding being faced by industries located across [...] Continue
Hydropower, THT News
Loadshedding to go up to 16 hours in winter
Posted on 31 August 2010
KATHMANDU: The nation is likely to witness 16 hours of load shedding per day starting from November as no power is likely to be added to the main grid in between. “It is almost sure that load shedding hours will go up to at least of 16 hours as the demand for energy increases by about [...] Continue
Hydropower
Industrialist ready to invest in thermal plant
Posted on 10 March 2010
KATHMANDU: Nepal has a potential to generate 53,000 megawatts of hydropower, Prof Narendra Man Shakya, Water Resource Programme Coordinator at the Institute of Engineering, told this daily today. According to Shakya, the estimate was based on the latest water discharge data available with the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, using Geographic Information System software. Dr Raghu Nath [...] Continue
Hydropower, Kantipur News
Industrialist ready to invest in thermal plant
Posted on 10 March 2010
BIRATNAGAR, MAR 08 - Industrialists in the Sunsari - Morang industrial corridor are ready to build the 50 MW thermal plant, if the government provides the loan for 20 years. “We do not just point out problems but also provide solutions to the government,” said Ashok Murarka, director of Murarka Organisation. “If the government provides the [...] Continue
News From Other Media
- Nepal : National Hydropower sees largest share trading - HydroWorld
- All sub-sectors in red - Republica
- Nepal firm seeks partners to develop hydro project portfolio - HydroWorld
- Tata wins power project in Indonesia - Trading Markets (press release)
- South Asia's Rectangular Triangle – Nepal, Bhutan And India - Eurasia Review
- Power to India - Nepali Times
- Nepal : Sinohydro to build 456 MW hydropower plant in Nepal - HydroWorld
- 17 hydro firms vie for license - HydroWorld
- Nepse drops 5.58 points - Republica
- Key optimal issues of Nepalese Hydropower Regulation - Nepalnews.com
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Guest Column
Mahakali Treaty outcome of economic nationalism
By Hari Bansh Jha
It was on 12 February 1996 that the the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the then Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao signed an agreement on the integrated development of the Mahakali river in Delhi. The Pancheshwor Project under the Treaty was expected to produce 6,000 MW of hydro-power with the investment cost [...]
Posted in Guest Column on 01-01-2010 Comments (1)
Interview
No alternative to power purchase from India : Mahat
The meeting of the Joint Commission on Water Resources is scheduled for the first week of November and is to be followed soon after by ministerial-level talks that will take up all issues relating to the setting up of the Pancheshwar Development Authority and reach a conclusion. We have informally agreed to locate PDA headquarters in Nepal
Posted in Interview on 08-10-2009 Comments (0)
Opinoin Tank
Pain of Losing West Seti
By Sudheer Raj Sharma Dhakal
The well-versed 750 MW West Seti Hydroelectric Project (WSHP) is once again capturing major energy headlines in both the print and electronic media of Nepal. Looked as a porthole for the development of the Far Western Development Region (FWDR) that has received the least development privilege, this project has been lingering for more than a [...]
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